This document discusses Schneider Electric's data center reference designs which provide high-level conceptual designs to help enable rapid and accurate planning decisions for data centers. It notes that current IT trends emphasize speed and simplicity in data center design. The reference designs are meant to help engineers and their customers simplify and accelerate the planning, design, build, and life cycle of data centers. They provide standard designs that can be customized and allow comparison of options to determine key project parameters and help move more quickly into the design phase. The document outlines the benefits of reference designs for engineering firms and customers and provides examples of how reference designs have helped achieve goals of speed, precision, and competency.

1. Schneider Electric Data Center Reference Designs
High level conceptual designs to help enable rapid and accurate planning decisions
Data Center Science and Solutions Team

2. Information Technology In Flux
Current IT trends put a premium on SPEED and SIMPLICITY in data center design
Cloud Computing
End User Driven
Internet of Things Big Data
ColocationSocial Networking

3. Innovating in a Changing Landscape
Prefabricated Data Center Modules
InfraStruxure Data Center Solutions
Global Supply Chain
Life Cycle Services
SCALABILITY
PRECISION
SPEED
Tailoring our offer to provide

4. Data Center Reference Designs
Helping Engineers and Their Customers Simplify and Accelerate
…all while improving availability and
predictability throughout the life cycle.
DATA CENTERS
PLAN
DESIGN
BUILD

5. Reference designs help you focus
Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Buddhist teacher
And narrow design choices quickly
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities.
In the expert’s mind, there are few.“
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6. Reference Designs: Targeting the Planning Phase

7. Reference Designs: Targeting the Planning Phase
> Move more quickly into a design phase
SPEEDPRECISION
> Rapidly compare designs
> Reduce detailed design iterations
> Provide a common language to improve communication
> Expedite the build phase
> Describe capabilities and cost with technical detail
> Make each phase more predictable
> Enable sharing of industry best practices
SCALABILITY

8. Flow in Determining Key Project Parameters
Core Project Parameters:
Criticality, capacity, growth plan, efficiency, density, and budget
Compare:
Preview, compare, and combine designs to match parameters
Analyze:
Consider design trade-offs and determine if parameters are met
Customize:
Apply validated preferences and constraints
Validate:
Input validated reference design into detailed design phase
Successful
Reference Design

9. Data Center Reference Designs
Support the customer’s exploration while
controlling our engineering documents
Customers can request the engineering package
at referencedesigns@schneider-electric.com
The design summary exists in the public domain
on the design selector
Engineering
Package
Acquiring a reference designTwo parts make up a reference design
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2
Floor Layouts
3D Spatial
Views
Single Line
Diagrams
Equipment
Selection
Design
Summary Block
Diagrams
Learn where to find
additional resources
Descriptions of IT,
power, and cooling

10. Reference Design Library - Evolving and Growing
Both built & theoretical
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Small data center
designs under 100kW
Prefabricated modular
data center designs
New designs all the time Using our new technologies
Prefab Modules
70+ designs in 9 languages
English
German
French
Chinese
Russian
Spanish
Portuguese
Korean
Japanese

11. Design Selector Engineering Package

12. Reference Design Benefits: Engineering Firms
Clients come to the table better grounded in reality with more sound
requirements
Less time spent in the programming phase, fewer iterations, less
time spent explaining design choices
Designs offer firms a great starting point for detailed design phase
work, particularly for firms with less data center experience
Practical demonstration of how specific Schneider products are
installed/configured for a given set of design parameters

13. Client was able to quickly move from idea to approved
project, using a reference design to show feasibility
and high-level budget.
“
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The reference design covers the high level
requirements of my clients and gives them
quickly a realistic view of the project so we
can kick off the project faster in a more
controlled and deterministic fashion.
FAST PROJECT APPROVAL
End user created a detailed site design by making
slight alterations to an existing prefabricated reference
design.
“
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What attracted me to the reference designs
was that I have previously spent a lot of
time and effort putting together a bespoken
high level data center design for clients and
it seemed I was reinventing the wheel each
time.
FAST DATA CENTER DESIGN
Real Reference Design Use Cases for
SPEED

14. End user engineer used a reference design to quickly
see how Schneider’ Electric’s new products could be
engineered into their electrical system.
“
”
I hadn’t ever really seriously considered
prefab, containerized stuff before… but
your reference designs crystallized the idea
of them for me. The depth of your designs
showed me in a very practical sense that
prefab could work well for us.
NEW PRODUCT INTEGRATION
End user used 3 designs of the same power level to
evaluate the design difference of two traditional and one
prefabricated
“
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…the fact that it provided a description, a
checklist of equipment used, single line
diagrams and layouts were all seen as very
useful tools and information to get from the
project outline to a method of reviewing the
scheme very quickly.
INFORMED DESIGN DECISIONS
Real Reference Design Use Cases for
PRECISION

15. Large Data Center operators evaluate reference
designs which show innovative ways to reduce copper
and installation costs.
“
”
I don’t do a lot of large data centers… we
have some in our portfolio but they all have
a shelf life of decades. So when a large
build comes along, it’s great to use a
reference design to see some of the new
innovative things you can do.
OPTIMIZED DESIGN
Engineering firm uses data center reference designs to
as an education tool for new engineers
“
”
When you’re a consulting engineer, data
centers are just one part of what you do, along
with schools and large office buildings and
such. Having some reference designs to study
helps me regain a quick perspective on data
center design.
EDUCATION
Real Reference Design Use Cases for
COMPETENCY

16. Schneider Electric is committed to helping
the world make the most of its energy.
Reference designs are a part of that mission.

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5 | Additional Resources

18. Online and on iTunes
Web Selector App
Reference designs are easy to access
● Schneider-electric.com/datacentredesigns
● App on iTunes
Landing Page

19. For more information…
> Landing page: http://schneider-electric.com/datacentredesigns
> To obtain an Engineering Package for a design, email referencedesigns@schneider-
electric.com (or contact a SE representative)
> White paper 147, “Data Center Projects: Advantages of Using a Reference Design”
> White paper 142, “Data Center Projects: System Planning”
> Browse our entire library of papers and tools at…
whitepapers.apc.com
tools.apc.com

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